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M. PARIDON MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS July 10, 1923.

Filed Jan. 9, 1922 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 July 10, 1923.

1,461,433 M. PARIDON MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS Filed Jan. 9. 1922 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 1,461,433 M. PARIDON MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS Filed Jan. 9, 1922 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 \O O Q g JQJ Patented July 10, 1923.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL PARIDON, OF BARBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COM PANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS.

Application filed January 9, 1922. Serial No. 527,855.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL PARIDON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and zontally reciprocating plunger by means of which relatively long strips of matches, supplied at another station, are pushed toward the carrier and positioned with their margins below cutting mechanism operative to sever the strips into card match lengths, which are subse uently moved into the cover blanks in t e carrier by means of a secondary plunger. The match strips, previously arranged on a suitable feed-table, are manually placed upon the top of the strip positioning plunger when the latter is in rearward position, which lunger in its next or return stroke passes orwardly beyond the superposed strips and permits them to drop in rear of the plunger preparatory to its next succeeding active stroke toward the carrier. Consequently the effective speed of the machine is limited and determined by the skill and facility of the attendant in properly placing the match strips upon the positioning plunger. It is the object of my invention to provide simple and eflicient mechanism whereby the feeding of the match stripsto the said positioning plunger can be materially expedited and the speed of themachine, and therefore its output, thus 'be increased in a given period of time. 7

With that endin view my invention comprises an endless feeder which is so constructed and co-operatively arranged in relation to the feed-table and the strip-positioning plunger of the machine that match strips can be readily supplied to the feeder in succeeding order and thereby/ rapidly advanced to and accurately deposited upon the plunger, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan of a portion of a book-match machine equipped with match strip feeding mechanism embodying my in vention.

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the machine, as on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.-

Fig. 3 is a similar section, enlarged, through the delivery end of the feeding mechanism, and adjuncts;- the positioning plunger being shown-in its rearward position, and a match strip as deposited thereon by said mechanism.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of upper and lower tables, upon which match strips are guide structure and also sprocket devices for the endless conveyer of the feeding mechamsm.

Fig. 5 is a skeleton perspective viewof the strip positioning and card setting plungers, and adjuncts.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a pair of eonveyer links and a cross-bar connecting the same.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a suitable supporting frame, including a table 11 upon and along which is guided the upper run of an endless carrier constituted by a chain of links 12 whereof each isconstructed to receive and support a match book cover, as 13, and 21 match card or cards, as 14. At a station of the machine cover blanks, each folded at one end, are inserted into the adjacent links of the carrier, and at a succeeding station match strips, as 15, heads forward, are fed toward the carrier and divided into successive card lengths, each length when out being placed in the carrier.

The chain is intermittently driven by' suitable mechanism, comprising in the present instance a gear wheel16.in mesh with. rack teeth 17 on the links. The stud'shaft of the gear wheel 16 bears a pinion 17' in mesh with the gear face 18 of a pin wheel -19 on a lower stud shaft 20 the pins of which wheel 19 co-act with a suitable cam 21 on the main shaft 22 of the machine."

A plunger 23, which is guided on a. forwardextension 24- of the table, is connected at its respective ends, by means 'of links 25,

supported and carried, showing a forward with two arms 26 loosely mounted on a shaft 27 fixed in brackets 27 depending from the table. One of the arms is connected by means of a link 28 with a rockarm 29 which is loosely mounted on the drive shaft 22. On this arm is a roller 30 which engages a face cam 31 on a longitudinal shaft 32 beneath the table. This shaft 32 is driven from the shaft 22 through co-acting gear wheels on the respective shafts. The plunger 23 is held yieldingly in its rearward position by means of a spring 33 which is secured to one of the arms 26 and t0 the table 11; and the contour of the cam is such that at the proper interval the plunger 23 is retracted thereby. A cover plate 34, constituting asupplementaltable, overhangs the path of the plunger 23, in spaced relation to the carrier, so that when the plunger is in its rearward position match strips can be'placed flatwise thereon and rearwardly of the table 34. (See Fig. 3.) This done, when the'plunger 23 travels beneath such table and away from the match strips, the strips fall upon the main table 11, whereupon in the next succeeding active stroke of the plunger, the opposing strips are pushed toward the carrier and positioned with their margins below the cutting mechanism including spaced-part reciprocating cutters 35.

The cutters are constructed and operated to sever the strips into match cards, which cards as they are out are pushed into covers in alinement therewith in the carrier by means of a supplemental plunger 36reciprocative transversely of the main table. Thisv card setting plunger 36 is connected to a slide-plate 37 which is mounted within the feed-table and is connected through a link 38 with the upper arm of a lever 39.that is loosely mounted on the shaft 27. The lower arm of the lever is connected b means of a link 40 with a rock-arm 41 pivoted on a bracket 42-on the base 43 of the supporting frame. On this rock arm 41 is a roll 44 which engages a face cam 45 on the drive shaft 22, the contour of the cam groove being such as to effect the timely reciprocation of the card setting plunger 36.

The match strips when in rearwardposition upon the main table 11 are advanced at intervals longitudinally of the table and beneath the cutting mechanism preparatory to the cutting of succeeding cards from the strips, all as fully shown and described in Letters Patent No. 1,042,472, aforesaid.

According to my present invention I provide an endless feeder upon which the match strips are manually deposited, and by means of which feeder the strips are delivered in successive order to the top of the positioning plunger 23.

In the machine herein illustrated two separate match strips in spaced endwise relamachine the strip feedin tion to eachother, or-two similarly spamdpairs of superposed match strips, are simultaneously delivered to the cutting path, and hence the feeder is constructed to effect such simultaneous plural delivery. This feeder preferably comprises a broad endless conveyer arranged to travel directly above and transversely of the table 34 and constituting in effect a double conveyer. Each unit, as it may be termed, of the conveyer comprises two spaced-apart parallel chains 46 connected by spaced-apart cross-bars 47, the space s between each pair of adjacent bars being somewhat greater than the width of a match strip. The chains of the two conveyer units pass about suitably-located sprocket wheels ,48 carried by two shafts 49, 50 mounted above and longitudinally of the table 11 so that the lower runs of the chains lie in close relation to the top of the table 34 and der the lower run of the latter in the space between such sprocket wheels and the top of the table 34.

The conveyer is driven in any suitable way. In the present instance one end of the front shaft 50 is provided with a spur wheel 53 which is geared through an idler 54 with a lower gear wheel 55, said idler and gear wheel belng mounted on stud shafts 56, 57, respectively, projecting from the adjacent hanger 58 forming a part of the frame structure. Fast to the shaft 57 is a sprocket wheel 59 which is connected by meansof a chain 60 with a s rocket wheel 61 on the driven shaft 32. ence during the operation of the conveyer is continuously driven in the irection indicated by the arrows. in Fig. 2. The upper runs of the conveyer chains travel on a horizontal table 62 which is conveniently supported by standards 63 on the table 34.

have capacity for movement from the front During the continuous travel of the c'onveyer as above mentioned, the attendant manually places match strips 15, with' their heads pointing forward, upon the table 62 and within the advancing spaces between the cross-bars 47 on the upper runs of the conve er chains, which strips are thus bodily move forward to, and then down adjacent the curved guide 52 in a manner to reverse the direction of travel of-the strips. The strips, with their heads now pointing rearward, are moved by the lower runs of the conveyer chains to, and discharged at the.

rearward edge of the table 34, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The speed of the conveyer is so timed in relation to the reciprocatory motion of the plunger 23 that when the latter approaches the end of its rearward positioning stroke, the strips at the rearward edge of the table are delivered flatwise upon the top of the plunger 23 by the conveyer, and hence as the plunger 23 approaches the limit of its return stroke the strips thus deposited thereon drop flatwise upon the table 11 inproper position for advancement by the plunger in its next succeeding rearward stroke. (See Fig. 2.) Each succeeding pair of single match strips, or plural strips as the case may be, are thus progressively deposited upon, and positioned in operative relation to the plunger 23 in each reciprocation of the latter.

From the foregoing it will be seen that my invention provides simple and eflicient means whereby the attendant of a book match machine is enabled to place a number of match strips, or rows of match strips, in the upper runs of the conveyer chains, with facility and without the exercise of particular care or skill, and that the strips when thus supplied to the conveyer are impelled thereby in .an orderly manner to and deposited in proper time upon the positioning plunger.

.It is to be understood that my invention is not limited to the particular construction herein disclosed, as the mechanism may be modified within the principle of the invention and the scope of the appended claims.

' I'claim 1. In a book-match machine having match-strip cutting mechanism, a. plunger, means for reciprocating said plunger toposition match-strips in the cutting path, and a, table from which match-strips are delivered toth'e plunger, the combination with said table and plunger, of strip-feeding mechanism comprising an element whereby match-strips are deposited in an orderly manneron said table and then fed successively therefrom to and upon the plunger, and meansfor actuating, said element in cooperative relation to the plunger.

2.'In. abook-match machine havi'n strip-positioning element,

a strip-fee ing mechanism comprising an endless conveyer strips, with their heads pointing in one direction, and then to ,reverse the dlrectlon of con'structedio receive and propel match travel of the strips, and advance them successively] to the strip=posit1on1ng element,

' and means .for actuating said conveyer in co-operative'relation to the strip-positioning element.

' mechanism comprising an endless conveyer havingupper and lower runs constructed to receive and propel match-strips, a guide em-.

bracing the forward end of the conveyer, and means for actuating said conveyer in cooperative relation to the strip-positioning element, said *conveyer being adapted to receive match-strips, with their heads pointing in one direction, in the upper run of'the conveyer, and advance them successively about the guide device in such a manner that the strips, with their heads reversed, are carried by the lower run of the conveyer to the positioning element.

4.111 a. book-match machine having stripcutting mechanism, a plunger, means for reciprocating said plunger to position matchstrips to the cutting path, and a table from which. match-strips are delivered to the plunger, thecombination with said table and plunger, of an endless conveyer mounted to overhang the table and constructed to receive match strips and feed them along the table and to the plunger, and means for actuating said conveyer in co-operative relation to the plunger.

5. In a book-match machine having strip: cutting mechanism a plunger, means for reciprocating said plunger to position matchstrips in the cutting path, and a table from which match strips are delivered to the plunger, the combination with said delivery table and plunger, of a supplemental table overhanging the delivery'table, an endless conveyer comprising chains having spacedapart cross-bars, the upper runs of the chains overlying the supplemental table and the lower runs overlying the delivery table, sprocket wheels for said chains supported at the respective endsof the delivery table, a guide structure embracingthe forward portion of the conveyer, and means for actuatplunger of an endlessconveyer having upper and lower runs mounted. to overhang the table and constructed to receive match strips in its upper run and carry them by its lower run along the table and deliver them to the plunger, a guide for the stripsin their travel from the upper to the lower level, and means for continuously actuating said conveyer in co-operative relation to the reciprocations of the plunger.

Signed at Barberton, in the county January A. D. 1922.

MICHAEL. PARIDON.

of Summit and State of Ohio, this 3rd day of 

